Making me sympathize with Twitter

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Lee Siegel, who discovered the Menace of the Intarwebs when he got caught sock-puppeting, reviews a Menace of the Intarwebs book in the Times Book Review. He is awed by startlingly new phrases like "slacktivism" and the insight that “the most popular Internet searches on Russian search engines are not for ‘what is democracy?’ or ‘how to protect human rights’ but for ‘what is love?’ and ‘how to lose weight.’” What does he think is better than the Web?

Mass journalism and democracy are inextricably entwined. Henry Luce and Comrade Stalin are two diametrically opposed animals.